BLAMIRE, SUSANNA blamire, susanna. blamire, susanna (17471794), English poet, daughter of aCumberland yeoman, was born at Cardew Hall, near Daiston, in January 1747. http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BL/BLAMIRE_SUSANNA.htm

Extractions: A life of Blake, with selections from his works, by Alexander Gilchrist, was published in 1863 (new edition by W. G. Robertson, 1906); in 1868 A. C. Swinburne published a critical essay on his genius, remarkable for a full examination of the Prophetic Books, and in 1874 William Michael Rossetti published a memoir prefixed to an edition of the poems. In 1893 appeared The Works of William Blake, edited by E. J. Ellis and W. B. Yeats. But for a long time all the editors paid too little attention to a correct following of Blakes own MSS. The text of the poems was finally edited with exemplary care and thoroughness by John Sampson in his edition of the Poetical Works (1905), which has rescued Blake from the improvements of previous editors. See also The Letters of William Blake, together, with a Life by Frederick Taiham; edited by A. G. B. Russell (1906); and Basil de Selincourt, William,Blake (1909).   (J. C. C.) BLAKELOCK, RALPH ALBERT (1847- ),  American painter, was born in New York, on the 15th of October, 1847. He graduated at the College ,of the City of New York in 1867., In art he was self-taught and markedly original. Until ill-health necessitated the abandonment of his profession, he was a most prolific worker, his subjects including pictures of North American Indian life, and landscapesnotably such canvases as The Indian. Fisherman; Ta-wo-koka: or Circle Dance; Silvery Moonlight; A Waterfall by Moonlight; Solitude; and Moonlight on Long Island Sound.

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Untitled for family and friends and dubs her "the poet of friendship.". susanna blamire never published during her lifetime. http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/SWRPLive/bios/S7021-D001.html

Extractions: Editors Note: SB's mother died when she was seven, after which she was brought up by an aunt, educated at the village school. She liked dancing, "doctoring" and playing her guitar. She wrote poems as a child, which do not survive. She visited London and Ireland, but visited a sister in Scotland often, and used Scottish dialect for her "Cumbrian Songs". She lived in Scotland from 1773 and later in Carlisle with Catherine Gilpin (1738-1811). Susanna Blamire (1747-1794) By Becky Lewis Critical Essay In 1994, a memorial tablet was placed in Carlisle Cathedral in Cumberland commemorating Susanna Blamire (1747-1794) as "Poet of humour and observation who caught the authentic voice of Cumberland." In the same year, the Lakeland Dialect Society published a bicentenary tribute, Susanna Blamire, "The Muse of Cumberland." Jonathan Wordsworth contributed a Foreword in which he recalls that she originally wrote her poetry for family and friends and dubs her "the poet of friendship." Susanna Blamire never published during her lifetime. The poetry and songs she wrote as entertainment were distributed in manuscript among friends and relatives (Gilpin 8). While some of her songs may be published in songbooks of the period, they were never signed. We owe our knowledge of the work to the collaboration of Patrick Maxwell and Henry Lonsdale, who grew up in Cumberland where Blamire lived most of her life and where her poetry and songs have been remembered for generations. In 1842, Lonsdale and Maxwell first collected her work, finding it in several places, including a collection of Robert Anderson, a later Cumberland poet who admired Blamire's work, the commonplace books of Blamire's friends, and Blamire's fair copies saved by members of her family. In the same way, Maxwell and Lonsdale gathered information about her life. In 1842, they published her poems in

Susanna Blamire - Poetry Poetry by women index for susanna blamire part of a larger collectionof poetry written by women, much of it before the twentieth century. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/pindx/blp_aindex_blamire.htm

Susanna Blamire - THE SILLER CROUN A poem by susanna blamire from The Home Book of Verse by Burton Egbert Stevenson. susannablamire 17471794. From Stevenson, Burton Egbert. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp2_blamire_siller_croun.htm